Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Mac Nightmares. Part 1

A few weeks back I went to reboot my mac mini after having done a system update. Prior to that I had purchased and attached to the system a 1TB external firewire/usb hard drive, as I use the system primarily as an HTPC. Boy was that not cool. I had not used the superdrive for a little while after attaching the new drive. Upon reboot went to try and burn a audio cd for my car. That didn't work at all. I have an external usb dvd/cd burner. Plugged that in. Also no go. So I called tech support. They had me reset the pram. All went well. Tested the superdrive while just having reset the pram. All was well in burning land. Mind you I sometimes have the system attached via a kvm to the rest of my computers. This setup was using a ps2 keyboard and mouse attached to the mini via a ps/2 -> usb converter. More on this later in the next installment.

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